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Press corps teed off on golf, instead of Benghazi

President Barack Obama should consider himself lucky. He only got a weekend of sniping from the media.

The last time a president traveled to Florida to play golf with a millionaire celebrity golfer he came home on a stretcher.

That was in 1997 when President Bill Clinton fell down a flight of steps at PGA golfer Greg Norman's house. Clinton had to be carried onto Air Force One on a stretcher by Secret Service agents and White House aides.

Clinton, leaving Norman's house at about 1:30 in the morning, after hours of conversation at which, according to Norman, no adult beverages were consumed, fell down a set of dimly lit stairs and tore a tendon on his knee. Clinton later had an operation to repair the damage.

But the picture of Clinton, the leader of the free world, being carried on a stretcher and hoisted aboard Air Force One was headlines across the country and around the world.

Obama was having none of that, even if he did play with world famous golfing champion Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods is so rich he makes Greg Norman appear eligible for welfare. So photos of Obama, the critic of "fat cat" millionaires and billionaires, and Woods, the fat cat millionaire and billionaire, were few and far between.

It apparently just would not do to have Obama posing with one of the people he accuses of not paying their "fair share" in taxes. That is what Obama's class warfare campaign is all about, turning people against each other.

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California native Tiger Woods, it should be noted, moved to Florida to avoid high California taxes. Florida does not have an income tax, for instance. For some strange reason, Tiger Woods got it into his head that he wanted to keep more of the money he earns, rather than give it to Obama to spend.

At any rate, the only photo taken during the three-day fantasy golf outing to compare with the historic photo of Clinton on a stretcher was the picture of a White House aide carrying three sets of golf clubs onto Air Force One at the end of the trip.

The clubs were stashed in the back of the plane because, with looming automatic budget cuts coming -- called sequestration -- Obama could face the possibility of being cut down to one set of clubs. No wonder the clubs ended up in the back of the plane.

Obama is blaming the heartless Republicans for sequestration even though Obama, like John Kerry, was for it before he was against it.

The flap with the White House reporters, usually a docile lot, traveling with the president came about when they discovered that they were banned from covering his unannounced round of golf with Tiger at the exclusive Floridian Golf Club in Palm City, Fla.

The press was so indignant at being kept in the dark over golf that one might have thought that Obama had refused to answer their probing questions about Benghazi, like what he was doing the night Islamic terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate and murdered four Americans., including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

Obama has never really addressed Benghazi because his cheerleaders in the media have never asked him about it. They just want it to go away, like he does. It's more fun to write about golf.

And because they were held back from writing about Obama playing golf with Tiger and several other elitist and filthy rich people, the press became indignant.

The head of the White House Correspondents Association issued a statement to register the group's "extreme frustration" over "having absolutely no access to the president of the United States this entire weekend."

Imagine if the White House Correspondents Association expressed the same indignation about all the unanswered questions about Benghazi. But that would be asking too much.

Despite the mini-flap in Florida, Obama owns the Washington establishment media, and that is why he holds these lapdog reporters in such contempt.

Recall Obama's debut remarks at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner in 2009, following a 2008 presidential campaign that had the media swooning all over him.

Obama looked over the packed audience of journalists and celebrities and said, "Most of you covered me; all of you voted for me."

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